Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After all, the desert thing is so passe. Caribbean is in. Stunning new choreography and set, guaranteed to blow your socks...
Just one day before on-board supplies were to run out, space shuttle Discovery made a touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert. The landing, originally scheduled for yesterday in Florida, was postponed because of bad weather conditions. Discovery added 460,000 miles on its odometer because of the delay...
...musician who endured his share of lean times. A dozen years ago, Roney, then 22, sold nearly everything he owned -- "my books, my records, my jacket," he says -- to leave Boston for New % York City, the world's jazz oasis. But when he arrived, it was more like a desert. He couldn't afford the $500 to buy his own horn. "There weren't too many gigs coming my way," he remembers. To practice, he had to borrow an old instrument a friend was using to hold flowers. At night he slept in the backseat...
...Daan Everts. "It's like a time bomb. The exodus has to be undone." The newly installed government called for all refugees to come home and promised that no revenge would be sought on the civilian population. "I'm not interested in leading a country that is considered a desert," Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared. He has only to look around his capital to see the scale of the problem. There is no electricity, no water, no telephones, only soldiers and guns and checkpoints. Even his four little children, who fled with him to Brussels two months...
...analysts and investors are beginning to look seriously at ideas for mutual development. A $3 billion canal could be dredged linking the Dead Sea with the Red Sea. The natural 1,300-ft. drop in altitude could power turbines, and the electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share...